Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3776
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Pinney represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Patrick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Patrick Pinney appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Toy Story is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, emotional range. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dave Cunningham, Robert Walker, Dean DeBlois and others, Patrick Pinney helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Toy Story (1995) as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice) · Mulan (1998) as Additional Voices (voice) · The Terminator (1984) as Bar Customer
Career snapshot
Ranked #3776 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
1984–2023
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Toy Story
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Toy Story
Most frequent director
John Musker
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With John Musker
Most common genre
Animation
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Brother Bear, Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Terminator.
Most productive era
1990s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | 7.22 films | — | — |
| Action | 7.91 film | 6.61 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 7.91 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 6.77 films | 7.72 films | 7.11 film |
| Romance | — | 7.24 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1984The Terminator
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bar Customer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995Toy Story
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2023The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special
The current state of the argument, as Painty the Pirate.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
19 of 19 films
as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
Directed by John Lasseter
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Tony Bancroft
as Bar Customer
Directed by James Cameron
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by John Musker
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Kirk Wise
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
Toy Story (1995)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice) gives Patrick Pinney a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Mulan (1998)
Performance score7.8
Mulan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bar Customer
The Terminator (1984)
Performance score7.7
The Terminator asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bar Customer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Voices (voice)
Aladdin (1992)
Performance score7.6
Aladdin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
Start here. Toy Story is the clearest statement of what Patrick Pinney does — accessible, 81 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patrick at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Terminator (1984)
A deliberate change of key after Toy Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
A deliberate change of key after The Terminator — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Aladdin (1992)
Keeps the romance register of Beauty and the Beast but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mulan (1998)
Keeps the adventure register of Aladdin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kirk Wise
Director
3 films together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
John Musker
Director
3 films together
Notably Aladdin
James Cameron
Director
1 film together
Notably The Terminator
Don Bluth
Director
1 film together
Notably All Dogs Go to Heaven
Mike Gabriel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rescuers Down Under
Phil Nibbelink
Director
1 film together
Notably An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Ralph Bakshi
Director
1 film together
Notably Cool World
Brian Henson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppet Christmas Carol
John Lasseter
Director
1 film together
Notably Toy Story
Tony Bancroft
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulan
Mark Dindal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Emperor's New Groove
Dean DeBlois
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilo & Stitch
Robert Walker
Director
1 film together
Notably Brother Bear
Dave Cunningham
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Musker
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AladdinKirk Wise
Director
3 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastJohn Lasseter
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Toy StoryTony Bancroft
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MulanJames Cameron
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TerminatorMark Dindal
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Emperor's New GrooveDean DeBlois
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lilo & StitchRobert Walker
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brother BearBrian Henson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Muppet Christmas CarolDave Cunningham
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe SpecialDon Bluth
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Dogs Go to HeavenMike Gabriel
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rescuers Down UnderPhil Nibbelink
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An American Tail: Fievel Goes WestRalph Bakshi
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cool WorldSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Terminator
as Bar Customer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mulan
as Additional Voices (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Toy Story
as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Toy Story
as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Patrick Pinney has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
39 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in animation, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Toy Story
as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Terminator
as Bar Customer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Brother Bear
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Treasure Planet
as Additional Voices (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Terminator
as Bar Customer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Rescuers Down Under
as Additional Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hercules
as Cyclops (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Toy Story
as Pizza Delivery Guy / Angry Driver #2 (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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